Consideration
for others and respect for the right to teach one's own children one's
own religious traditions. That's the sort of things Fox and Fiends like
to call "politically correct" since to attack what might otherwise be
called tolerance or good will or common decency requires a meaningless
epithet that can mean anything you need it to mean. PC. All this means of course, that someone, somewhere is waging war on Easter even though there's no evidence anywhere that the celebration of the holiday is being suppressed. It isn't; neither the mythology of death and resurrection nor the syncretion of Jesus with the European fertility Goddess for whom the holiday is named. It's long been a Goddess holiday and students of semitic languages will notice that the Ish in Ishtar, for instance sounds like the Isha -- the woman created for the Ish, Adam.
Yes, one principal in one school in Alabama doth a war make because he decided that his school is not a Sunday School, but a secular school, supported by taxes, whose business is not to give parties, either with eggs and bunnies or ridiculous stories about resurrected first century Jewish revolutionaries as recounted by people who weren't there.
Of course having no factual knowledge or rational basis for argument, having no interest in educating or informing the public, the Fox Coven launched this morning into a typically fatuous farrago of fallacy and peremptorily non-sequitur assertions such as Gretchen the Witch's:
“Have we just gotten so deep into this political correctness that we now just can’t take the religion as it is, celebrate it and move on?”Pardon me? Are we so stupid that we didn't notice you haven't made a case at all - neither logical or mystical or truthful? You've just snickered and sneered and flung dung and declared war. Decency is PC so let's do what we will?
The real question of the propriety of making kids perform rituals, ridiculous or otherwise, was not addressed, not discussed, not acknowledged, as the 'discussion' devolved into a bouillabaisse of bullshit. Easter celebrations can't be offensive because bunnies aren't in the Bible? Are you the same morons who want to get rid of Halloween because it's pagan? What's next, they cackle -- can't we say Nor'easter? Can we still teach about Easter Island in Geography? It's a pagan holiday anyway, or maybe it isn't and why can't we just gyre and gimble in the wabe with The Christrabbit and eat Mithras buns with the Mome raths
? Right or wrong, we're right because it's just so much fun to mock -- anyone can do it! Brillig, man, just brillig.
